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Painting from Life, Portraiture and Composition
 Designed for all levels, this class focuses intensely upon the human figure. Students may work in any media, using the figure and portrait to investigate the potentials and problems of light and shade, color, composition and anatomy. Dan Gheno places emphasis on well-structured figures, but he is open to all aesthetic points of view, and he encourages the development of each person's individual style.
Most of Mr. Gheno's paintings are metaphorical in content. He says, "I'm fixated and focused on the human figure and the concerns of humanity's form, its anatomy, its environment, and its psychological concerns. I normally utilize the model as an actor, and I most often see the model as a player in a metaphorical tableau, depicting various states of mind, sometimes reflective of the communal human condition, sometimes directly autobiographical."
As a traditional figurative artist, Mr. Gheno explains, "I have a fascination with the Old Masters and a love of volumetric drawings and paintings, but I also frequently enjoy combining these interests with formal, abstract concerns that acknowledge the flatness of the canvas and a fondness for painterly, expressive application of paint."
Mr. Gheno exhibits regularly, both nationally and in New York at locations that
have included: the Museum of the City of New York, the National Academy Museum,
the Butler Institute of American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Caro
Gallery, the Limbo Gallery, the National Arts Club, the University of Hartford Art
Gallery,Westmont College and Union County College. Mr. Gheno is a member of the
Pastel Society of America and the Allied Artists of America. His artwork and writings
have appeared in various magazines and books, including American Artist, Drawing
Magazine, Oil Highlights, Pastel Highlights, Portrait Highlights, The Best of Pastels II
and the cover of The Best Sketching and Drawing. His work was included in a recent
book from the Museum of the City of New York, Painting the Town. He was the art critic
for the Santa Barbara News and Review in the 1970s. His awards include a Rome grant
from the Creative Artists Network.
Mr. Gheno's work is included in several public and private collections including the Museum of the City of New York, the New Britain Museum of American Art and the Griswold Museum, Connecticut.
Mr. Gheno studied at the Santa Barbara Art Institute. At the Art Students League
of New York he studied with Harvey Dinnerstein, and at the National Academy of
Design School he studied with Mary Beth McKenzie and Mr. Dinnerstein.
Mr. Gheno has taught at the National Academy School since 1989 and is
Professor Emeritus at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut
after teaching there for eighteen years.
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